German re-armament and militarisation: Second World War pocket battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee'. After sinking nine Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic, she was tracked down by British warships in December 1939 and was damaged in he ensuing...

Giant limestone statues of Ramses II (Rameses - 1304-1237 BC) holding the crook and the flail, symbols of kingship, Temple of Ramses, Abu Simbel (Simbul). On left each statue has cartouche for Rameses carved on shoulder. From watercolour by Scottish...

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England: research students, 1898. J(oseph) J(ohn) Thomson (1856-1940) is in the centre of the front row with his arms crossed. In the middle row are C(harles) T(homson) R(ees) Wilson and Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937),...

Christmas and New Year Greeting card for 1936/37 giving a light-hearted view from America of the constitutional crisis in Britain at the time. The verse reads: The Lion and the Unicorn Have monopolized the papers To disapprove with British scorn King...

Burnt out shell of Crystal Palace, Sydenham, SE 19, south London, England, UK, c.1936. The palace was the home of The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, architect Sir Joseph Paxton, cast iron, glass construction, a highlight of Victorian...

Future Queen Elizabeth II & her Uncle "David" the name he was known by in the Royal Family. Edward was crowned in 1936 but abdicated the same year for Wallis Simpson. 1936 was known as the year of 3 kings. George V, Edward VIII & the...

Edward was crowned in 1936 but abdicated the same year for Wallis Simpson. 1936 was known as the year of 3 kings. George V, Edward VIII & George VI. Photographer anonymous/uncredited/unknown from George V and Edward VIII by F G H Salusbury published...

Edward was crowned in 1936 but abdicated the same year for Wallis Simpson. 1936 was known as the year of 3 kings. George V, Edward VIII & George VI. Photographer anonymous/uncredited/unknown from George V and Edward VIII by F G H Salusbury published...

Future Queen Elizabeth II riding with the Duke of Gloucester in Windsor Great Park. Photographer anonymous/uncredited/unknown from George V and Edward VIII by F G H Salusbury published by Daily Express Publications London 1936

From Photograms of the year published 1936. Ian Pirie MacDonald (1867 –1942) photographed over 70,000 men during his career, many of whom were heads of state, religious leaders, writers and artists. This image is of the Dublin born Irish Dramatist Sean...

Adolf Hitler (* 20. April 1889 in Braunau am Inn; ? 30. April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reichskanzler from 1933, from 1934 also self-appointed ?Fuehrer? and head of state of Germany | Hitler im Kreis seiner n

Adolf Hitler (* 20. April 1889 in Braunau am Inn; ? 30. April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reichskanzler from 1933, from 1934 also self-appointed ?Fuehrer? and head of state of Germany | Der F